Concept information
Preferred term
Cytokines
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Chemokines
- Growth Differentiation Factor 15
- Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors
- Hepatocyte Growth Factor
- Interferons
- Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Protein
- Interleukins
- Leukemia Inhibitory Factor
- Lymphokines
- Monokines
- Oncostatin M
- Osteopontin
- Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin
- Transforming Growth Factor beta
- Tumor Necrosis Factors
Entry terms
- Cytokine
Scope note
- Non-antibody proteins secreted by inflammatory leukocytes and some non-leukocytic cells, that act as intercellular mediators. They differ from classical hormones in that they are produced by a number of tissue or cell types rather than by specialized glands. They generally act locally in a paracrine or autocrine rather than endocrine manner.
History note
- 91
In other languages
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Finnish
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sytokiini
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016207
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